This is why I am now looking at my lab book and saying "Why the hell did you do that instead of investigating this perfectly obvious cause?" - because there were people in the room who kept looking over my shoulder, and it was winter! Grahhh. Must make decisions outside work and do what I told myself when I get there, or possibly stop being afraid of my colleagues.

Come to think of it, I had a dream once where I was pregnant and my thoughts about whether I wanted to keep the foetus were completely different to the ones I had when I was a) awake and b) not pregnant (or thinking I was). It's made me rather more reluctant to make plans for what will happen in the rest of my life, in case I'm really in that situation and my feelings about what I want to do are different to the ones I had when I made the plan, and also more keen to have a lot of money saved up.

Mmm. Impending parenthood is certainly something that can surprisingly change one's attitude to all sorts of things. The phenomenon isn't limited to the person actually carrying the foetus and experiencing all the biology first-hand, either; the purely psychological effects on the father-to-be can also be noticeable.